Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta...

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Synonyms: Hamefura, I Reincarnated into an Otome Game as a Villainess With Only Destruction Flags…, Destruction Flag Otome

Japanese: 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 5, 2020 to Jun 21, 2020

Premiered: Spring 2020

Broadcast: Sundays at 01:30 (JST)

Producers: Mainichi Broadcasting System, Asmik Ace, King Records, Ichijinsha, Nichion

Licensors: Crunchyroll

Studios: SILVER LINK.

Source: Light novel

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Themes: Isekai, Reincarnation, Reverse Harem, School

Demographic: Shoujo

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Most people would prefer being the protagonist of a world full of adventure, be it in a game or in another world. But, unfortunately, a certain girl is not so lucky. Regaining the memories of her past life, she realizes that she was reborn in the world of Fortune Lover—one of the games she used to play.

Unfortunately, the character she was reincarnated into—Catarina Claes—is the game's main antagonist, who faces utter doom in every ending. Using her extensive knowledge of the game, she takes it upon herself to escape from the chains of this accursed destiny.

However, this will not be an easy feat, especially since she needs to be cautious as to not set off death flags that may speed up the impending doom she is trying to avoid. Even so, to make a change that will affect the lives of everyone around her, she strives—not as the heroine—but as the villainess.

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Claes, Catarina

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Uchida, Maaya
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Ascart, Sophia

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Minase, Inori
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Kakihara, Tetsuya
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Aoi, Shouta
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Hayami, Saori
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Ascart, Nicol

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Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu
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Stuart, Alan

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Suzuki, Tatsuhisa
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Hunt, Mary

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Okasaki, Miho
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Dieke, Sirius

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Masuda, Toshiki
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Shelley, Anne

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Waki, Azumi
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Aoi, Hiroyuki

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Kaneko, Hayato

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Opening Theme

"Otome no Route wa Hitotsu janai! (乙女のルートはひとつじゃない！)" by angela (eps 1-11)

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Ending Theme

	1: "BAD END" by Shouta Aoi (蒼井翔太) (eps 2-11)
	2: "Otome no Route wa Hitotsu Janai! (乙女のルートはひとつじゃない！)" by angela (eps 12)

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Dec 27, 2023

Drakestalker

Recommended

Making good lightweight entertainment is actually a pretty tough balancing act. On the one hand, you can’t go ham on suspense and drama and give your audience an aneurysm with constant tension all the time by incessantly keeping them on the edge of their seats like a Kuroko no Basket match. No, the conflict has to be simple, laid back, and not all-too-dramatic, just warm and pleasant, not unlike a summer breeze.

That said, conflict does have to exist. You need drama to tell a story. If you make that conflict too easy to resolve and forego tension entirely, then the story loses all meaning. It’s ... difficult to invest in something when there are no stakes. An example of how to do this wrong is the Smartphone isekai. That one never came across to me as a story about an overpowered protagonist, but rather a story about a regularly-powered protagonist in a world set on babyshit easy mode. Everything just sort of works out for him in that world, even with little to no intervention on his part. In a way, he feels a lot like Indiana Jones in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, except, you know, minus the part where he is a cool character in a good movie.

What is needed is a sweet spot between teeth-gnashing tension and meaningless child’s play. In other words, what I’m saying is that you need to create the illusion of a high-stakes conflict, and then slowly but surely resolve it in a relaxed, fun, and pleasant way. And that’s what’s difficult about it. It’s difficult to sell an illusion as believable. If you don’t sell the illusion hard enough, and if you’re not subtle enough with the resolution, then the curtain falls away and you see the Wizard of Oz for what he really is. It’s a sleight of hand, but it can be very effective if done right! HameFura offers just that.

We open on a day in the life of a spoiled young lady, the daughter of a duke in a magical, pre-industrial revolution medieval land. Her name? Catarina Claes. Then, upon unexpectedly suffering a head injury, the trauma makes her remember her past life as a Japanese otaku girl who died in a car crash at the age of 17. What’s more, she particularly remembers a dating sim she used to play, Fortune Lover, whose world and characters bear a striking resemblance bordering on the identical to the world and characters of the world she currently lives in. What’s more, Fortune Lover has a main villain character who, one way or another, suffers an unpleasant fate in all of the game’s routes, be it death, exile, or worse. Her name? Catarina Claes! Upon realizing that she was reincarnated as the detestable villain destined for doom, she endeavors to change the course of history and spare herself a sticky end. Will she succeed? Watch to find out!

Aside from being an instantly magnetic premise which makes use of a gimmick I haven’t seen before, it’s the perfect balance of a conflict that is meaningful and important and also simultaneously rather simple to resolve. You might already intuit what she needs to do. I mean, it’s really not that hard to figure out, right? All in all, it’s a genuinely pleasant and fun show, and seeing Catarina encounter characters from the game one after the other, and changing the way she interacts with them, thus fundamentally changing the way they develop as people was nothing short of a delight.

If it has any weaknesses, other than being light novel shlock, it’s the fact that it doesn’t have much to offer beyond its original premise. Point and fact, whenever the characters deviate towards a side-quest that doesn’t directly have to do with altering Catarina’s fate for the better, I found myself losing interest. I also felt that the ending was the weakest part of the anime, seen as it introduces a completely new antagonist character out of nowhere, rather than paying off a threat it was admittedly building throughout its run, but never really went anywhere. Unfortunately, I can’t go into any more detail without spoiling. There’s also some dark magic mechanic that tries to sell itself as ominous, but I found wholly uninteresting and superfluous.

If the basic premise does not attract you, then you can safely skip this, but if it does, then by all means, enjoy it because it really is a lot of fun. Personally, I would strongly recommend it, but I want to be sensitive to isekai exhaustion. It’s one of studio Silver Link.’s weaker shows in terms of visual presentation, but it never looks anything less than perfectly presentable.

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Sep 26, 2023

TyphoonHarry

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An inherently intriguing premise and a bubbly lead character comically fighting fate itself give Hamefura a lot of promise, but poor pacing and a tendency to stray away from the main story end up undermining the show's momentum and cheapen key moments. It's still a fun and playful watch with bountiful humor especially carried by the antics of Catarina, the lead, but the simultaneous potential for depth and suspense set up by the show early on ends up being disappointing.

Hamefura is powered by a great premise and a compelling twist on the isekai model: with the protagonist Catarina reincarnated as the lead villainess in an ... otome game from her past life, she must now play the game of life right to avoid what seems like certain doom for her. Ever colorful and sympathetic as she strives to remain in the good graces of the game's other characters, Catarina is easy to root for and a hilarious lead. One of Hamefura's strengths is showing Catarina deliberate (with what appears to be her five braincells) upon her next course of action to stay one step ahead of life itself. It's a situation ripe for comedy and intrigue, and Hamfeura does a great job of this early. The show is at its best when we see Catarina's sometimes bungled and sometimes successful attempts to carve a new, unprogrammed route in her new otome world. The other characters in Hamfeura don't particularly stand out (and ultimately end up being somewhat one-note), but it's heartwarming fun seeing Catarina empathetically befriend them and the camaraderie that develops among the central cast.

Unfortunately, what begins as a great start with many avenues for exploration loses its steam about midway through. The show keeps its comedic tenor but gets caught up in side stories and odd excursions that drastically slow down the story and derail the momentum that was building up, so much so that it almost slows into slice-of-life territory with episodes skipping forward in time to whatever ultimately trivial event happens to be ongoing. The show starts off with a lot of potential to play on both being lightheartedly humorous yet also bear meaningful stakes, which would have been a rare and exciting combination. However, Hamefura ends up angling more for the comedic vibe, which is fine for atmosphere but comes at the expense of the story itself. With all the time spent dawdling, the impactful moments in the story come very suddenly and are resolved very quickly, and it's because of this that the payoff for Hamefura's central conflict (after finally getting its premise-driven footing back towards the end) ends up falling pretty flat. By compressing meaningful events and drawing out milieu, a lot ends up going unanswered or deserving of more elaboration, and key events seem to just "happen" without impetus.

Hamefura lays out the framework for a great show, and while it at the very least follows through with what it promises and the threads it opens up, it does so in a way so full of random detours and stalls that its conclusions become somewhat flat and unsatisfying. Nonetheless, Hamefura remains a fun ride with abundant stress-free romantic tension.

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Oct 24, 2022

EyeAmTheI

Not Recommended

The concept of this show was quite refreshing, the MC starts as a villain, and she has to save herself from the impending doom. Well, at least that's what you would expect when you read the title right? Well, not really.

As for the main plot point. Well yes, the tittle is really misleading. I mean on paper our heroiness was the villainess, but she was never threated that way. (Honestly even the shield hero would have been better fitting for the title...) The thing is the show tried to sell her as a villainess, but she never was one (because of the usual isekai personality ... swap). She is the always smiling, dull, shallow, cute girl archetype. So she didn't do anything to prevent her doom. She gave only herself, and it was enough. I was expecting a redemption story, but this is not much more than just a dumb reverse harem. She didn't have any character development. She was the same dull, shallow character the whole time. Self-insert for teen girls? I suppose...

In reality, it’s basically the story of what could have happened if you were a completely different person. Although it could have been a good story, but this anime lacks the depth to convey it properly.

Usually I can't stand the harem anime. Sometimes it works though. This was not a problem in itself either.. It was well founded in the settings (dating simulator). What's the issue then? Let's put it this way. I can see why an edgy bad boy protagonist is attractive to a lot of girls. Similarly I can see why a girl with unique qualities are appealing to da' boys in the hood. I can absolutle understand why those protagonists has an army of simps. However what personality traits Catarina had? Well, yes she can eat a lot of sweets (such wow), and her hobby is farming (much depth), and that's about it. In a broarder sense she rejected the formality, and didn't care about the prestige or social status. Which basically every teenager ever. Who didn't rebel against the society when they were young? I definietly did. So it is a mistery to me what made her such a simpworthy person, not to mention that our resident heroiness was so dense, and dull it is unbelivable...

As for the other characters. Well, they are not better either. All of them are painfully cliche cardboard cutouts. The only somewhat acceptable character is Alan, but even he is bellow avarage...

The other parts of the show were fine. Visually and audiwise it was a correct work. It hits the standard of the recent anime.

That's about it. There is not much worth mention about the show. Most likely I'm not the target audiance. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to laugh on this one, but it was painfully unfunny for me. What a simp attention race...

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